It would be really helpful when you right click an audio file in the playlist or other place, and you select ‘properties’ and the window opens, then select the ‘attribute’ tab you could see the encoded bitrate quality of the file. Like ‘320’
Reason is, because if you have duplicate files, and you want to choose the higher quality file, this will at least help and make it easier to choose the best option. When searching the database, and duplicates come up, there is no way to tell what is what. Adding this field would be helpful.
this issue has come up in the past years in the german section a few times.
In brief:
%_bitrate% is a technical information, not an attribute.
Therefore it can not be imported by default (same as frequency or bit depth, by example).
In Mp3tag you can add an individual attribute from the technical information (details see in this screenshot). This attribute can be read in mAirList as a standard attribute. I hope, it works with mp3; my test was based on flac.
In the discussion the opinion came up that you should only store the best quality in your database and separate the other files to another folder.
The mAirListDB is not the best place to search for or choose between duplicate files.
There are much better tools available.
However, you can find those duplicates by exporting the database as a *.csv file in a Calc sheet and sort it there.
In addition, I’m not sure if mAirList imports all ID3 information to “Other Attributes”. In flac (Vorbis comment) it does. Maybe it has something to do with the metadata structure.
Is it possible to get mairlist to add a field for bitrate? So that if we use an outside program to fill in a field called “Bitrate” then mairlist could read this as a normal tag/attribute?
You can create individual fields as much as you want in mAirList as Standard Attributes. This is not the problem.
mAirList has to find a field in the metadata attributes that matches. However, that does not work with all codecs / metadata.
Do you use mp3s? There could be problems with this.
Yes I use mp3’s. I tested creating an extra field in the tag of an mp3 and manually entering the bitrate, but when mairlist read it, it did not show the extra field in the attributes/about tab.
There may be technical reasons for this that only Torben would be able to explain.
As I mentioned previously, I use flac coded files, where each custom field is imported. The Vorbis Comment tag is different to the ID3 tag.
It seems that Vorbis Comment is easier for mAirList to handle than ID3, but I don’t know exactly why. I remember Torben trying to explain the details to me, but unfortunately I can’t recall them well enough to list all the differences.
When I searched through the forum, even down to version 2.0, I found no indication that mAirList imports more than just a few selected tags from ID3.
I think this has always been the case since mAirList was published.
You can try converting a copy of an mp3 file to flac and see which attributes are imported to mAirList. This won’t improve the quality, only the file size, and there will be no loss of quality.
